Artists who have only ever appeared on disc (no DLC yet)

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Even though somewhere between some and all of the RBVR artists will come to RB4 as DLC eventually, I went ahead and added them to the list.

I'm sure it will make it even more confusing once they do come as DLC as far as how to annotate this list at that time, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it I 'spose.

If we're counting a spinoff as on-disc, and the rerelease of the on-disc song as not-enough-DLC to take them off this list, shouldn't we count artists like the Jackson 5? On-disc on Lego and Unplugged; the Unplugged song came later as DLC to the main platform but it's still only the two songs included in the games, right?

(The more you think about it, the more complicated this list becomes...)

Fair point. While I consider RBVR closer to something like Lego than to something like Unplugged, it does seem pretty arbitrary for me to decide one is more "worthy" than the other.

The options I'm seeing here are to either A. Only consider games that feed into the "Core" Rock Band platform, all the ones that feed into the most current form of Rock Band, which RBVR would notorB. Use the Unplugged scenario you mentioned as a precedent, and continue that by removing any artists that get their only song rereleased through Rewind like Ratt.

The question is which one makes this list more useful/interesting. But you're totally right, as it is the list is inconsistent.

Went ahead and removed all the VR exclusive artists for now since they don't tie into the main RB platform.

And as already mentioned, congrats to Mumford & Sons for making it onto the storefront! Hopefully next time we get a DLC song from them it'll be one I actually like, but good to see them get more content nonetheless.

I didn't see it as a slam on "Abnormality", but you're right, it sort-of is: "here's an artist no one would actually like"!That chart looks absolutely ridiculous on guitar, and watching videos of people playing it, I can't get a feel for the timing of it. Even if my fret fingers could move that quickly (which they cannot). Though if you read the YouTube comments* you'll find that several people think it's "actually pretty easy". And I LOVED singing it, since it's charted as a talkie I was able to give it a unique interpretation.

I didn't see it as a slam on "Abnormality", but you're right, it sort-of is: "here's an artist no one would actually like"!That chart looks absolutely ridiculous on guitar, and watching videos of people playing it, I can't get a feel for the timing of it. Even if my fret fingers could move that quickly (which they cannot). Though if you read the YouTube comments* you'll find that several people think it's "actually pretty easy". And I LOVED singing it, since it's charted as a talkie I was able to give it a unique interpretation.

The guitar chart has a trick to it: At the beginning you have to strum at the same speed non-stop (either fast or really fast). The slams at the middle are easy. The hardest part is the ending, it's an endurance test on your fretting hand, but even if you can't hit the quick HO-POs the strummed notes should keep you alive to the end.

Anyway, who had the idea of having a brutal death metal song on RB2? not even regular death metal.

Hmm... Animal Flag... I don't know if it really counts, but Animal Flag's debut album, LP, is awesome. It has a bunch of great indie guitarcentric tracks on it, and I've listened to it a lot. I would like to see more from them, someday.

PS: LP is choose your own price on Bandcamp (i.e. free if you're a cheapskate).

Nightwish wasn't on-disc on RB3, and was only DLC. Though I definitely feel we need more Nightwish, it's kinda weird how they WEREN'T on-disc in hindsight, what with all the keys and harmonies and all that.

Nightwish wasn't on-disc on RB3, and was only DLC. Though I definitely feel we need more Nightwish, it's kinda weird how they WEREN'T on-disc in hindsight, what with all the keys and harmonies and all that.

RB3 was the perfect time for symphinic metal and what did we get? Evanescence (which arguably doesn't even count), a very watered down Nightwish track and some RBN stuff.

Nightwish wasn't on-disc on RB3, and was only DLC. Though I definitely feel we need more Nightwish, it's kinda weird how they WEREN'T on-disc in hindsight, what with all the keys and harmonies and all that.

RB3 was the perfect time for symphinic metal and what did we get? Evanescence (which arguably doesn't even count), a very watered down Nightwish track and some RBN stuff.

Just thinking of specific tracks among the 5 I wouldn't mind putting in my library....tbh, I never heard of some of the bands on the list prior to RB and some I only ever play again if they end up in game on random play.